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Re: Googlez&!

Originally Posted by lawlett-kun

googzatron?!

Yes letty?
Oh, about your set. Details please.
I remember you wanted someone from Basuke, but only the ava amirite? I was kinda confused since you had one some time later. Made by Shin if I remember correctly.
Is that the one you're talking about?

Re: Googlez&!

Well, the Realism is not what you would usually call exciting or anything like that. I am, though, quite amazed by the richness of words and language. You know, authors like Flaubert and Tolstoj are just so eloquent. Their language is full of color. And it’s figuratively blowing my mind just how vast their knowledge is, like, what they know about fabrics or certain trades, alchemy, etc.…
Speaking of alchemy, maybe you might find Ben Jonson’s play “The Alchemist” to your liking. (That is, if you haven’t read it already.) I’m usually not that much into drama but this one was really cool, IMO!

Lol, yeah, it was the same for me. (Both, the longevity of said feeling of accomplishment and the parties and whatnot.) That was a great time, really.

And I’m happy to hear we share that opinion. It’s kinda my wish to try and establish a certain niche for manga in the academic context, like it already exists in Japan and to smaller extent in the USA. That would be really great.
Manga still do have this – how we would probably call it here – “Dünkel” about them, like this sort of label 'it’s stuff for kids and/or girls in puberty'. Although admittedly this has become a little better in recent times with the “discovery” of the Light Novel as a medium to directly market comics for adults. For example, there are two or three Manga featured in Süddeutsche Zeitung’s Light Novel series: Taniguchi’s Aruku hito (“Der spazierende Mann”, was it?) and Nakazawa’s Hadashi no Gen (“Barfuß durch Hiroshima”) and I think there might have been one by Tezuka, I’m not sure about that last one though. (Might be confusing it with Carlsen Comics’ publishing of BUDDHA as a Light Novel Hardcover Edition.)
But I can understand the publishers. Budget still runs very tight on them, they can hardly afford taking risks, so they have to go with mainstream stuff, which is easily marketable or series akin to earlier hit series. – I think it was Carlsen (or Tokyo Pop Germany) who said they try to squeeze in one more experimental title (i.e. Seinen manga in general) once every quarter of their fiscal year.
Lately, there have been quite a few good serializations in my opinion! TokyoPop went for friggin Punpun and solanin (still think about asking them if they already have a translator for the former…), EMA got themselves LIAR GAME and Carlsen publishes – besides great stuff like Nausicaä’s new edition – Vinland Saga and I Am A Hero. So I think there had been nastier times.

German anime industry is a whole different story though. But since I generally don’t really give a shit about anime (I have to cut back somewhere, I already read literally hundreds of manga) I won’t poke my nose into that matter.

Oh, and sure can do! If by then, we’re still both active around MH and build up a peachy bromance we could hang out one time. – Might be nice for you guys to have someone around who knows the language and – hopefully by then – knows some cool spots! : )

Another tl;dr post in your thread. Sorry!

Nice, I'll try to get my hands on The Alchemist.

I'm not sure how I'm supposed to feel about the 'discovery', as you named it. While I do appreaciate the thought (I really do. Manga can't possibly keep this annoying image in Germany...), I was never a fan of flipping manga. Furthermore, sometimes you even notice something strange about the panelling or the position of the speech bubbles feels odd. Funny of you to mention those particular manga, at the time you posted this I had just bought Der spazierende Mann and the first volume of Hadashi no Gen.

Yeah, guess it's not that easy for them, though it still bugs me when I see that a popular manga like Eyeshield 21 isn't published, yet, while several midly popular run-of-the-mill battle manga manage to get into the stores. Oh well, as you said, it's getting better. I own the whole Nausicaä collection and I'm getting the I Am A Hero volumes. Recently they started to publish Billy Bat, which I'm also getting. Also bought two great 'Graphic Novels' and plan on buying Liar Game and maybe, just maybe, Vinland Saga, but.....................WOW, SOLANIN??? Haven't heard of THAT yet! And Oyasumi Punpun, to boot?? I think I just wet my pants a little. Hopefully they'll consider publishing other Asano Inio manga. And while they're at it they could show some Shingeki love.

Oh, something that might support those new developments is the expansion of Shonen JUMP Alpha. If I remember correctly, they're planning to bring it to Europe. Germany will most likely be included, I think. Now you just need to look at what it has done for US readers (friggin' Nisekoi is getting licensed) in order to imagine what I'm dreaming of.(Nisekoi, AC, Haikyuu!)

I'm the very same with anime. Though I wish I could watch some more. There are some great ones out there, but I just can't find the time.

That'd be waaaaay cool! Still don't know if we're actually making this trip. Need to save up some money first.

Originally Posted by X3D2YFaust

You only want to become an artist or both manga author and artist?

If you want to become a manga author you better start learning japanese grammar, language, and texts

If you only want to become an artist you should find a good japanese manga author partner

Totally forgot I wrote something like this. :P
I'm fine with being a manga artist here in Germany. That alone would be fantastic!
Something I might consider is going to Japan and drawing there for an author, but even that is far-fetched.